Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the Saint Mary 's window though , which was considered best for the first class stamp . |
| 2 | I was taken there for the first time when I was six weeks old in a motor side car down from London to just within ten miles of Bury St Edmunds . |
| 3 | Here again I respectfully agree with the observations made by Lord Donaldson M.R. , at pp. 324–325 , and by Neill L.J. , at pp. 326–327 , when rejecting the proprietary argument , which had not been advanced before Wright J. but which had rightly to be considered when it was put forward for the first time in the Court of Appeal . |
| 4 | The government 's position on the structure of higher education was articulated publicly for the first time by Crosland in his famous speech at Woolwich Polytechnic in 1965 , in which he declared the government 's acceptance of the need for a ‘ system based on the twin traditions which have created our present higher institutions ’ . |
| 5 | The festival was held outdoors for the first eighty years , but moved indoors after torrential rain caused the collapse of the stage as the congregation were singing The Heavens are Telling ! |